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Converged Microsoft Account and Azure Active Directory Programming Model – #Microsoft, #Azure
Wow, finally Microsoft is doing something about the Microsoft Account and Azure AD identity “mess”! 🙂
Until now, building an application that worked with both personal and business accounts from Microsoft required integrating with two different technology stacks. Not only that, you had to have separate buttons in your app where your user needed to choose, up front, to sign-in with a personal account or a work or school account.
With the v2 app model preview, it is possible to sign-in both personal and work users with a single button. Let’s take a quick look at the end user’s experience. We begin with your application, with the addition of a “Sign-in with Microsoft” button.
We’re using the Microsoft brand because end users don’t know about Azure or Azure Active Directory. But they do know that Windows, Outlook, OneDrive, Xbox, and Office 365 are services from Microsoft and they need an account from Microsoft to sign-in there.
When the user clicks the button, they come to a consolidated sign-in page:
The user enters their username. Under the covers we figure out if the username corresponds to a personal account or a work account. Then we take the user to the right page to enter their password. Today this may involve a redirect – in the future we’ll optimize this out.Â
Read more here!
//Richard
It all ADDS up with #BYOD (Assess + Design + Deploy + Support = Success)
Below you can read about a couple of webinars coming up on Citrix’s view on how to get your BYOD strategy up and running!
Cowboy consumerization is here…and it’s here to stay. You may not want to admit it, but you already have a few “outlaws” in your organization who are using their own devices, regardless of whether you allow them to or not. In fact, you probably have entire departments accessing email, apps and data on devices and through services that are not secure. The consumerization of IT is here to stay, so you may as well embrace it.
When business information is accessed by user-owned, consumer-grade devices, the right technology foundation is essential to ensure IT control. The question is where to begin. What are the business, user and IT benefits of enabling bring-your-own device (BYOD)?
The business wants to make employees more productive yet remain compliant. Users want access to all their enterprise apps and data from their many devices and IT wants to ensure security and control in a way that’s simple to manage.
Before you begin a BYOD initiative, it’s important to understand the underlying products that will become a part of your BYOD solution and their functionality and feature sets. One size does not fit all and, even though a BYOD solution may seem complex, it’s important to realize that it all boils down to addressing four key things:
- Multiple Devices – Employees are bringing their own devices (on average 3) into the workplace – whether you like it or not.
- Lots of Apps – IT have lots of them and different types (Windows, Web, SaaS and Mobile) that everyone want access to from their device.
- Unmanaged Data – Employees are..
Continue reading here!
//Richard
Why only Platinum version of NetScaler SDX VPX Package? – #NetScaler #SDX #Citrix
Why does Citrix only sell Platinum versions in bundles of 5 for the SDX platform? Wouldn’t it be great to be able to purchase for instance Enterprise or Standard for the VPX’s you want to setup for capabilities provided by the Enterprise version of NetScaler?
I’d like to buy that instead… what about you guys? Or does this model exist?
//Richard
The IT Melting Pot! 